Ornamenting enameled or glazed surfaces



(N0 Modem H. ABBOTT.

ORNAMENTING ENAMELED 0R GLAZED SURFACES. No. 309,911. Patented Dec. 30,1884.

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HENRY ABBOTT, OF NEIVARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOUBTHS TOIVINTON O. GARR-ISON, OF SAME PLACE, AND THE ELGIN NATIONAL IVATOHCOMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

QRNAMENTING ENAMELED OR GLAZED SURFACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,911, dated December30, 1884.

Application filed January 12, I884.

1'0 al whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY ABBOTT, of Newark, in the county of Essex,andin the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ornamenting Enameled or Glazed Surfaces; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,1nak

re ing a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan view ofa transfer-film for a watch-dial before removal from the de sign-plate.Fig. 2 is alike view of the paper back used for the removal of saidfilm. Fig.

3 is a plan view of said paper back and filn1 combined, and Fig. 4 is alike view of a dial having upon its face said transfer-film.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

In the figuring or lettering of watch-dials by means of transfer-films,the great delicacy of such-films renders it exceedingly difficult toremove one from the engraved plate and place it in position upon a dialwithout dis tortion or other injury. To render certain and easy thisheretofore difficult operation is the design of my invention, whichconsists in the method employed, substantially as and for i the purposehereinafter specified.

In the preparation of transfer-films a plate, A, preferably of copper,is provided with a suitable etched or engraved design and the. sunkportions then filled with vitrifiable colored material, after whichliquid collodion or other analogous substance is then poured over itssurface and caused to permeate and combine with said colored material.The collodion is now allowed to harden to the right consistency, and thecoat-ed plate is then immersed 0 in acid water until the film B has beenloosened and is in condition for removal, after which said plate isplaced face upward upon a table or other like,support, and a disk ofpaper, 0, previously wetted, is placed over 5 said plate and upon saidfilm, and by the aid ofa knife, tweezers, or other like instrument saidparts are together turned up at one edge, and are then simultaneouslypeeled from off said plate. As the paper back 0 is larger than (Nomodel.)

the figured portion of the film B, a round hole, 0, is provided at itscenter, and another round hole, 0, in a position corresponding to theseconds-arbor opening of a watch-dial, while at the center of saidfigured film is provided a circle, b, slightly smaller than said hole 0,and in position to be covered by said hole 0 is a straight radial line,b. In placing said paper back upon said film before the removal of thelatter from the plate A, said circle I) and hole 0, and said line b andhole 0 are caused to register, whereby the exact position of said filmis readily known. The dial D is now coated. with an adhesivepreparation, and the film B, upon the face of the paper back 0, is thenplaced in position thereon, during which last-named operation, as saidfilmis transparent, the register-marks b and b are easily brought overand caused to coincide with the center and seconds-arbor openings ofsaiddial,

so as to cause the design upon said film to 0c cupy the precise positionintended. 1

By means of the paper backingthe film is perfectly supported and may behandled with ease and safety, while without such backing said film couldnot be removed from the engraved plate without being liable to becometorn, and it would be practically impossible to place it smoothly in theprecise position required'upon the dial.

XVhile I have only illustrated my improve- 8 ment as applied to theornamentation of dials, it will be seen that it is equally applicable inthe ornamentation of any article, and that by means of openings in thepaperback through 1 which any previously-selected register-marks 8 5 canbe seen, any design may be accurately placed in position upon an articleto be ornamented.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention,what Iclaim as new is 1. The method of removing a transfer-film from adesign-plate to the surface upon which it is to be secured by firstplacing upon the back of said film asheet of wetted paper, then peelingsaid film and paper simultaneously from said plate,then placing saidpaper-backed film face downward upon the prepared surface, and,la-stly,removing said paper backing,1eavingr said film adhering to said surface,substantially as specified.

2. The method of accurately placing a transfer-film in position upon aprepared surface, consisting, first, in placing upon the hack of saidiilm a sheet of wetted paper provided with openings which may be causedto coincide with registermarks upon said film, then placing the latterface downward upon its pre- 10 pared surface and registering thesamethere

